Auction: 31st October 2023
Preview: 27.-29. October 2023
Once again Van Ham surprises with an extraordinary special sale: on 31 October 2023 the Cologne auction house will be offering the entire series of 270 works which were editioned by the international Swiss art magazine Parkett between 1984 and 2017. This sale represents the very first auction of all Parkett editions on the international market. For those interested in art this is a unique opportunity to acquire works by the most important contemporary artists, with estimated prices ranging from 200 to 500,000 euros. The museum quality of the legendary Parkett editions has already been recognised at exhibition venues of international renown, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Parkett published a total of 270 artist portraits consisting of three to five texts each by respected authors. Every one of the participating artists was actively involved in the design of the publication – from the selection of the images to the page layout – and in addition created an artwork in the form of an edition. The results were prints, sculptures, installations, media works, paintings and drawings. The list of the 234 artists in total (some of whom are represented several times) reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary art: they range from Mark Bradford, Elizabeth Peyton, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu and Francis Alÿs to Katharina Fritsch, Damien Hirst, Marlene Dumas and Anish Kapoor, and through to Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter, to name just a few.
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LOTE 52:
Tacita Dean
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Tacita Dean: The Green Ray (für Parkett 62)
DEAN, TACITA
1965 Canterbury
Title: The Green Ray (for Parkett 62).
Date: 2001.
Technique: Postcard from Madagascar on card. In transparent cover in envelope.
Depiction Size: 10,5 x 15cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered (verso).
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/100.
Condition:
Slight traces of usage inherent to the work. The work is in very good condition.
Each copy of the edition was sent by the artist to the Parkett-Verlag from Morombe, Madagascar.
With Parkett magazine.
"When asked, 'What is the relation between sound and image in your work?' Dean answered, 'My interest resides in this gap between the sound and the image. I require sound to have its own autonomy.' Thus, in opposition to an approach to cinema in which the viewer experiences a sense of identification with the spectacle, Dean creates a mode of apprehension in which the observer feels at odds with what she sees. (.) The slightly disjointed relationship between the sound and image, compounded by the clearly physical presence of the projector creates caesurae, which force the beholder to return to real-time, lived bodily experience rather than that of the cinematic."
Paula Carabell, Parkett no. 62, 2001.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 62.
Explanations to the Catalogue
